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Bug 1597853 - (CVE-2018-12934) CVE-2018-12934 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c
CVE-2018-12934 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype ...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180411,reported=2...
: Security
Depends On: 1597856 1599458 1597854 1597857 1597858 1597859
Blocks: 1597855
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Reported: 2018-07-03 13:26 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2018-07-09 19:48 EDT (History)
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-07-03 13:26:42 EDT
A flaw was found in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. This allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.


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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763101
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-07-03 13:28:08 EDT
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597857]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1597854]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597859]

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